August 05, 2009

He may not say much when he's on the bench, but on the road Justice Clarence Thomas handles the grilling.

So says the
justice's wife Ginni in an interview with The Takeaway, referring to who cooks
when the Thomases are in their recreational vehicle.

Justice Thomas and his wife's love for life on the open road is well known, but in
the interview, Ginni discusses what it is about traveling in an RV that is so
appealing. For one thing, Ginni Thomas said, you get a chance to sleep in a
Wal-Mart parking lot.

"We have been in dozens of Wal-Mart parking lots across the country. It's
one of our favorite things to do. You can get a little shopping in, see part of
real America. It's fun,” Thomas said.

Thomas said it’s also a chance to go incognito, something that must be
difficult to do inside the Beltway. When asked if their worst nightmare
would be to pull up to a campsite and see Justice Antonin Scalia roasting
marshmallows on a campfire next door (a great visual anyway), Ginni Thomas
laughed and said she could think of worse things, such as fending off fans.

“It’s not that there’s anything bad that happens when [Clarence Thomas] gets
recognized. What actually happens is that we kind of get mobbed,” Ginni Thomas
said. “We had to leave one site that they got so friendly that they looked
forward to seeing us every year that there would be 20 to 30 people waiting for
him to come out of the bus, so we just had to move on.”